You can keep thinking it over, using the same thought processes that got you where you are – stuck in a rut – or you can try looking at it from a different angle, consider some unorthodox ( and probably scary) ideas for getting unstuck, make a decision, and take action. Could you fail? Absolutely! What’s the alternative? If you stay stuck in your rut that isn’t making you happy or giving you any satisfaction in life, you’ve already failed, haven’t you? So, maybe it’s time to try something else.

What Does an Eclipse Have to Do With It?

We pretty much all start out as kids. full of enthusiasm for life, excitement about the future, and loaded with expectations about the lives we’re going to lead. We’re like the full moon, or the sun, (emotionally) big and ready to do something amazing. Then, life kicks the crap out of us, and our hopes, dreams, and expectations get smaller, and smaller, and smaller. Pretty soon, full eclipse, we’re just shadows of our former selves. Shadows of the people we are meant to be.

“The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But, it doesn’t have to be like that. Do you know those people we see on TV and in the news, leading big lives – the kind of life you dream of living? Those people aren’t just lucky (well, some of them are, and some of them are born to rich parents that start them off well) those people, for the most part, are the people who considered the options, made decisions, took action in spite of the possibility of failure, and kept trying till they found a way to ‘get it right’

“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” – Peter Drucker

When you start to take action, it’s like you’re moving out of the total eclipse phase of your life, and your light starts to show again. Just like a real solar eclipse or lunar eclipse, it doesn’t show all at once, but it does show. More than showing, you feel it, in your heart, and once it starts, you want it to keep going. There will be times you have to rely on faith, and that isn’t always easy if you’ve had a rough way to go. But, if you have the intelligence and interest to make a change, to just start and try, then you deserve to know that you can do it.

“Never mistake motion for action. – Ernest Hemingway

Solar eclipse image courtesy of Pixabay

“Action is the real measure of intelligence.” – Napoleon Hill

You can think an idea to death, you really can. (I’ve done it SO many times, myself.) Opportunities come and go quickly. If you’re sitting on the fence, so to speak, thinking it over, waiting on it to be perfect and easy, someone else is going to snatch your great idea out of the ether, and they’re going to run with it. Then, you’re going to be wondering why someone else is getting rich and living the good life, and it’s because they had an idea and took action instead of waiting for every detail to be perfect.

“A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.” – Tony Robbins

It’s normal to WANT everything to be lined up perfectly and ready to go when you start something new. Unfortunately, life rarely delivers that kind of tidy package. Some amount of risk lies behind every opportunity for success. (That risk is called ‘the chance it might not work out’.) Only you can decide what you’re willing to put into something, whether it’s a personal relationship, a career, or any other type of dream.

“Action may not bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” – William James

The only thing you know for sure is, if you don’t make a decision and take action, you can’t really expect anything other than what you have right now. And if that was satisfying to you, you probably wouldn’t have just read this whole article trying to find out how to stop spinning your wheels get unstuck, and get your eclipsed inner light to shine again.

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